Across the National Borders: Making and Remaking the Multicultural Adriatic Area

In the last three decades nation-states and nationalism as main actors of the historical processes have been more and more questioned. Different approaches have been developed especially with regards to the multicultural regions of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, particularly marked by the long-term imperial legacies.
This workshop, organised by CAS SEE Fellows, Marco Abram, Marco Bresciani, Jan Mus and Francesca Rolandi, aims to apply new post-national or transnational approaches to a so far overlooked region such as the Adriatic area. Due to its multicultural heritage, this region provides an interesting case study for some of the most significative political, cultural and social experiences which characterised Central and Southern Europe in the last few centuries. Particular attention will be devoted to the transitional periods and their impact on the (more or less conflicting and violent) relations between state and civil society, to the processes of social and cultural identification of national or supranational communities, to the shifting of borders and to the movements of populations, to the often contested public and collective memories.
The workshop will present both ongoing researches and new projects implemented by researchers coming from different countries and academic environments in the area (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy), with the aim of strengthening relations and exchanges across the national borders.

Special guest of the workshop is Professor Drago Roksandić, University of Zagreb

PROGRAMME

9:15 - 9:30 CAS Welcome
 
9:30 - 11:00: 1st session
Jan Mus, CAS, University of Rijeka
Nationalism of the industrial revolution and the agrarian question

Marco Bresciani, CAS, University of Rijeka
The Eurasian Crisis in the Mirror of the Upper Adriatic Borderland (1918-1941)
 
Štefan Čok, University of Primorska
The Italian Liberal-National Party in Trieste: myth and facts
 
11:15 - 13:15: 2nd session
Marco Abram, CAS, University of Rijeka
A bastion of Brotherhood and Unity” Socialist Yugoslavism and national identities in post-war Rijeka
 
Francesca Rolandi, University of Rijeka
The Yugoslav Asylum Seekers in Italy: a Case Study at the Border of the Western Bloc

Anita Buhin, European University Institute
International Years of the Adriatic Melodies: the Case of Sergio Endrigo

Chiara Bonfiglioli, University of Pula
Transnational women’s activism in the Italo-Yugoslav border area: the case of Trieste
 
13:15 - 13:30: Conclusions

INFO
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